Two years ago:
- Vitality Over-the-Rhine launched a working group to study the feasibility of creating a special improvement district.
- Cincinnati City Council voted to appropriate property for improvements to the Colerain-West Fork-Virginia intersection in Northside.
- Work was nearing completion on the five-story parking garage at Kenwood Towne Place, and site prep was underway for the new Nordstrom store at Kenwood Towne Centre.
- Photos of the Cincinnati skyline and Covedale were added to the Building Cincinnati galleries.
- UC News featured a video of the UC Solar House, which finished fifteenth in the international Solar Decathlon competition.
- An Avondale two-family, which was owned by a neighboring church, was razed.
- I visited Mount Washington, Anderson Township, and Mariemont.*
One year ago:
- In Spring Grove Village, the site of the Gray Road landfill was rezoned to make way for a proposed light industrial park.
- Cincinnati City Council passed an ordinance creating a capital project account for lead remediation at the Blue Ash Airport.
- Demolition continued on the silos at the Consolidated Grain and Barge site in South Cumminsville, with no plans for redevelopment.
- A North Fairmount home on a long-forgotten street was razed by its owner, the second such property he demolished that month.
- I dropped by Pike Street in Covington.